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was alight, and a grand tho sorrowful sight it would have been to me, had I had time to stand & look upon it__ but this I had not. Towards evening the men said they were ordered to leave & some rode off. Searight, with whom I had had a good deal of conversation, seemed troubled, & ashamed of the excesses the men were committing__ I tried to leave him some supper cooked, but fast as fast as the bread was baked, & meat cooked, or even before, it was taken off the stove, the kitchen being crowded all the time. Just before he rode off I handed him some cake, which I wrapped up carefully, & told him not to allow any one else to see. I was in great hopes then that they were all going off__ it was getting late in the evening & the rain coming on. A portion of them did move off, but just at dark here they all came back again, and camped, right on top of us. The yard was full__ the camp extended from the stables on the left clear round in front__ thro the grove, on the hill between us & Col. Spurlocks, to the bluff & down the bluff almost to the river. The prisoners they had taken were confined in the old stable buildings__ the new stable was occupied by their officers. A Col. Jordan, Maj. Jones, & another Maj. were here for supper, Jones being sick slept in the house. The other two & a guard occupied the front porch. I could scarcely keep my face straight at supper to see those officers try to put on the courtesy & easy dignity of Southern gentlemen__ their manners fit upon them like a stiff shirt of new clothes to a 10 year old boy. It amused me to death.

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was alight, and a grand tho sorrowful sight it would have been to me, had I had time to stand & look upon it__ but this I had not. Towards evening the men said they were ordered to leave & some rode off. Searight, with whom I had had a good deal of conversation, seemed troubled, & ashamed of the excesses the men were committing__ I tried to leave him some supper cooked, but fast as fast as the bread was baked, & meat cooked, or even before, it was taken off the stove, the kitchen being crowded all the time. Just before he rode off I handed him some cake, which I wrapped up carefully, & told him not to allow any one else to see. I was in great hopes then that they were all going off__ it was getting late in the evening & the rain coming on. A portion of them did move off, but just at dark here they all came back again, and camped, right on top of us. The yard was full__ the camp extended from the stables on the left clear round in front__ thro the grove, on the hill between us & Col. Spurlocks, to the bluff & down the bluff almost to the river. The prisoners they had taken were confined in the old stable buildings__ the new stable was occupied by their officers. A Col. Jordan, Maj. Jones, & another Maj. were here for supper, Jones being sick slept in the house. The other two & a guard occupied the front porch. I could scarcely keep my face straight at supper to see those officers try to put on the courtesy & easy dignity of Southern gentlemen__ their manners fit upon them like a stiff shirt of new clothes to a 10 year old boy. It amused me to death.